Black Holes

Black Holes addresses the atheist experience—the reality of bearing sole responsibility for one’s actions without the oversight or intervention of a supreme being, lacking divine comfort during distress and any afterlife to follow.

Th​e work was created in recognition of a profound human need – ​as an absurd Wailing Wall of sorts for the non-believer. Folded metal notes fill the black spaces in an industrial cooler. They contain no text because no one will read them. The paradox of the supplication sent with the full knowledge that it will receive no answer will not be resolved. It marks both the gesture’s inherent necessity and its inevitable failure.